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...schools by setting our minimum standards at certain levels we may find ourselves eventually with a smaller pool of candidates, fewer top scholars and a lower average level of academic ability as well as a less interesting, attractive and varied student body. In other words the attempt to obtain a top-one-per-cent student body may in fact defeat its own ends...my guess is that whatever admission policy is followed the number of candidates for admission to Harvard and similar colleges is not likely to increase anything like as much in the coming decade as was once commonly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Dean Bender's Valedictory Message | 10/2/1961 | See Source »

Willy Brandt might be a solution to German problem, according to Shirer, but he doubted that the Social Democrats could ever obtain a majority in additionally conservative and Catholic West Germany...

Author: By William D. Phelan jr., | Title: Shirer Claims German Nazis Rose Threat | 10/2/1961 | See Source »

...University has failed in an attempt to obtain the site of a Gulf service station across from the Union for a multilevel student parking garage, L. Gard Wiggins, Administrative vice-President, told the CRIMSON yesterday...

Author: By Bruce L. Paisner, | Title: Harvard Fails to Get Property Near Union For Parking Garage | 9/28/1961 | See Source »

...glyoxal-bis-gua-nylhydrazone). The researchers were trying to find out why the drug produces an undesirable side effect-lowered blood sugar. The toadfish is an ideal subject for such an experiment because it has simple kidney and insulin-producing mechanisms that permit researchers to observe sugar changes. To obtain blood samples, the researchers prick each toadfish's tail. To collect urine, they attach balloons to the excretory ducts of the toadfish, let them swim around for several days in a briny tank, take the urine-filled balloons to the laboratories for study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Menagerie at N.I.H. | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

...vaccine. If the guilty virus strains could be isolated and injected in a nonvirulent form into the body, natural immunizing forces could go to work, produce antibodies, protect against the disease. But in trying to isolate the virus, laboratory scientists have been faced with a forbidding problem. They could obtain the virus from infected persons, mixed up with tissue, feces, and other microscopic and submicroscopic organisms, but there seemed to be no way of bringing about a mechanical or chemical separation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Getting Hep | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

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